Word: plazas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...N.Mex., while Estes was still shaking hands, Stevenson finally turned to an aide and asked, "Have we done enough?" They decided they had, and, after tearing Estes away with some difficulty, they entered a canary-yellow Cadillac to ride into Santa Fe for a public appearance on the Plaza and a La Fonda Hotel political conference with Democrats from seven states. Twenty-four hours and 1,107 miles later, the pattern was repeated: at Vancouver, Wash., where the conference with party leaders was delayed for 30 minutes while Estes shook hands...
...movement started, Rojas marshaled army, navy and air force men in Bogotá's broad Plaza Bolivar on the third anniversary of his seizure of power. Ranged on a platform at the foot of the statue of Liberator Simón Bolivar were a tall crucifix and eight urns containing the ashes of Colombian soldiers who fought in the Korean war and in the country's own backlands guerrilla war. Rojas then read off a solemn oath, swearing the servicemen, in the name of Jesus Christ and in the memory of Simon Bolivar, to "fight for the domination...
Despite his new buy, Henderson will have a hard time catching Connie Hilton. Last week in Cincinnati, for a total of $25 million, Hilton bought the eight-year-old Terrace Plaza and took a 25-year lease on the 29-story Netherland Plaza. Hilton, who plans to build an $18 million Kansas City hotel, announced last week that he will also build a $24 million Detroit hotel with 1,500 rooms and 50 penthouses, operate it for a fee on a 25-year lease for an investment group. Hilton says he has already cleared his plans with the U.S. Justice...
...worthy setting for the cathedral. One group, now headed by Minister of Housing and Local Government (and Churchill's son-in-law) Duncan Sandys, wanted to make away with the clutter of market and business buildings that still hem in St. Paul's, create a majestic plaza in the grand manner...
...final" farewell tour of the U.S., Spain's youthful (64) Gypsy Vicente Escudero, grandest master of the flamenco, made an unlikely bivouac in Manhattan's staid Hotel Plaza, paused between stomping and fingernail-castanetting to reminisce about his roving life and good times. One of diminutive (5 ft. 6 in., 125 Ibs.) Dancer Escudero's closest barroom buddies was the late, bibulous portrayer of Montmartre, Maurice Utrillo. Was Utrillo ever sober? Snorted Escudero: "Ah, poor Maurice! When not in his cups he would fall down, so he sought to avoid sobriety at all costs!" Is Escudero...